O/T:- Defund the bbc.

[EwarWooWar]

I think you are conflating the BBC with the UK. We are almost as friendless and despised as Trump's US these days. A hard rain's a-coming.

No, the general opinion of the UK is poor, they like us as people. But they don't like the BBC, they see it as dishonest and preachy. You need to start getting you info from a more diverse source. I used to like the BBC, it was working abroad that opened my eyes to how bad it is.

[i961pie]

Ah, welcome back to our slightly left of centre poster who by a strange coincidence only seems to agree with anything on the right?

Now where have I heard that before?

[EwarWooWar]

Ah, welcome back to our slightly left of centre poster who by a strange coincidence only seems to agree with anything on the right!

Have you recovered from your indignation about that vile racist term 'gammon' yet Mr WooWar?

Use of a derogatory term based on their race used to belittle them is racist. I've had better things to do recently that argue with a bunch of narrow minded bigots on the internet.

As for agreeing with everything on the right, I certainly don't. I am against the authoritarians of this world, they are the biggest threat. The BBC are assisting them by failing to tell what is actually happening and just pushing their agenda filled lies. You though accept the lies because they align with your biases.

90 nights of riots in the US and the BBC won't mention them, 32 dead so far and the BBC won't mention them. They will push the lie that the latest cause celebre was just another innocent victim, rather than a violent offender that had broken into the appartment of his ex girlfried and (that he had an outstanding warrant for domestic and ***ual assault against) and was refusing to leave.

Keep believing the lies, you are have already been assimilated. Resistance is futile.

[drillerpie]

Yeah I think I’d have agreed with you a few years ago when my kids were always on CBeebies/CBBC. Now? I have to say I don’t watch or listen to anything much at all, certainly not the news which despite what the idiots say bends over backwards to placate the ruling party. And I don’t believe the ‘well if you’re upsetting both sides you must be doing something right’ horsesh!t either.

Local radio sport is good, and Notts would miss the coverage, but generally I think I’d miss the BBC less now than at any time before. Sadly enough.

Nice methodical and rational rebuttal of the view that if only people on the extremes dislike the BBC it can't be that bad.

Presumably the Guardian is more objective?

[Psaw]

Good on you Ewar. On jeremy Vines tv show on channel five they were discussing how people cant go on holiday because of the virus. Vine then stated that the rich are still holidaying on their yachts. Hows that for pure hate. You make a few bob because you have done something good, and you become a target.

I dont watch his show, i was flicking through. Its a real war....

FREEDOM v dictatorship. There is no difference between any dictator and socialism. The commies pretend they are doing it for your own good, and amazingly some fall for it.

The BBC is diarrohea.

[jackal2]

FREEDOM v dictatorship. There is no difference between any dictator and socialism.

Socialism certainly isn't a voluntary system. Some countries use hard-line dictatorship to enforce it, while others use a softer approach that maintains some illusion of freedom, but the underlying control methods are still there.

I often think that the leaders of socialist countries are the best exemplars of why the doctrine doesn't work. They always seem to find a way of being first amongst supposed equals, living a privileged, protected, sometimes even palatial existence far removed from their 'comrades'.

[BigFatPie]

Nice methodical and rational rebuttal of the view that if only people on the extremes dislike the BBC it can't be that bad.

Presumably the Guardian is more objective?

It wasn’t meant to be methodical or rational. If you take a different view feel free to express that view whichever way you want.

And Christ knows what the Guardian has to do with anything.

[Mapperleypie]

Use of a derogatory term based on their race used to belittle them is racist.

There is no way in the world gammon is a racist term. It is a word to describe a state of mind. I suspect the demographic of the contributors to this website is fairly narrow but you can tell by the use of words those who are part of the gammonista.

[sidders]

Sid - you seem to think your opinion is more important than others, maybe it’s because you are a multi award winning journalist. I disagree I struggle to find any of your posts that are anything but arrogant twaddle but I suppose it’s all about opinions.

I don't think that at all and I have never claimed to be a multi award winning anything. I suspect your difficulty with me arises out of your right wing convictions. I may post twaddle but now and then it's positive twaddle. When did you last post anything positive on here? That's why I belittle your username. In truth you are a backward magpie.

[drillerpie]

It wasn’t meant to be methodical or rational.

Yeah I know, don't worry I wasn't seriously expecting it to be.

And Christ knows what the Guardian has to do with anything.

The Guardian has to do with it the fact that it is also an organisation that reports the news. One that you presumably read as you link to it sometimes.

This made me presume that you consider it to be more objective, unlike the BBC that you rarely watch or listen to any more because you don't like its editorial line.